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100	1		_aLakshminarayan, Lavanya _eAuthor _926034
245	1	4	_aThe ten percent thief / _cby Lavanya Lakshminarayan
260			_aUK : _bSolaris, _c2023.
300			_a344 p. ; _bill. ; _c23 cm
500			_a"Revised and updated from Analog/Virtual first published 2020 by Hachette India" -- page opposite title page.
520			_a"A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, the injustice it creates, and the revolution that will destroy it"--
520			_aWelcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values, and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent-- the Virtual elite-- and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs: no access to electricity, running water. Denied even your humanity. The system has no flaws-- until the "Ten Percent Thief" steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city.... -- adapted from jacket
650		0	_aVirtual reality _vFiction. _926035
650		0	_aSocial stratification _vFiction. _926036
650		0	_aSocial classes _vFiction. _926037
650		0	_aRevolutions _vFiction. _926038
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